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Install WordPress and go beyond blogging

WordPress is so flexible that developers are now tapping it to create robust applications for content, contact, and e-mail management. Whether you’re a casual blogger or programming pro, this comprehensive guide covers WordPress from the basics through advanced application development. Learn how to use custom plugins and themes, retrieve data, maintain security, use social media, and modify your blog without changing any core code. You’ll even get to know the ecosystem of products that surrounds this popular, open-source tool.

• Enhance your blog’s findability in the search engines and beyond

• Discover hooks and leverage the WordPress event-driven programming interface

• Create WordPress widgets in only a few minutes

• Explore alternate uses of WordPress

• Enhance your blog with WordPress MU

• Ensure your plugins maintain future compatibility

• Create highly customizable and dynamic themes using template tags

• Learn best security practices as a user and developer

Companion Web Site

Visit www.wiley.com/go/wordpressbible for all of the author’s example files from the book.

Install, secure, and maintain WordPress

Extend WordPress with plugins and themes

Enhance your blog with WordPress MU

About the Author

Aaron Brazell is a leading WordPress and social media consultant, with clients ranging from enterprise software companies to small- and medium-sized businesses. He has worked on large-scale WordPress installations from both a technical/scaling perspective to complex deliveries involving extreme leveraging of the software plugin API. He maintains a large business and technology blog in the Washington D.C. area, Technosailor.com.

Mark Jaquith is one of the lead WordPress core developers and an independent Web services consultant. He has consulted for major clients through his company, Covered Web Services, and is the author of several popular WordPress plugins, including Subscribe to Comments and Page Links To.

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A Step by Step Wordpress Tutorial for Beginners is written for people who want to create a blog with as little technical mumbo jumbo as possible. This book explains WHAT you need to do, WHY you need to do it, and exactly HOW to do it in a thorough, step by step tutorial written in simple English. In this easy to read book, you’ll learn how to create a self-hosted blog, how to install Wordpress with just a few clicks of your mouse and how to change the themes and personalize your blog.

It demystifies concepts like pinging, trackbacks, widgets and plugins, gravatars and wavatars, RSS and email subscriptions, and it also tells you how to get people to discover your blog, what to do about spam, and more. By using this simple tutorial to create a self-hosted blog with Wordpress, you’ll be able to set up your blog in almost no time, with ease and accuracy, and your final result will be a professional looking blog that people will be able to find just minutes after you write your first post!

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Bloggers love WordPress! If you’re ready to start using this free blogging software, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition is just what you and your blog need to make a splash.

Professional blog designer Lisa Sabin-Wilson shows you how to use all the latest upgrades to WordPress and helps you decide whether to use the Wordpress.com hosted service or self-host your blog with WordPress.org. Whether you’re just venturing into the blogosphere or you want to shift an existing blog to WordPress, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help.

Explore theme development and learn where to find free WordPress themes Extend WordPress through plug-ins, CSS, custom fields, and more Find out about archiving, interacting with readers through comments, tracking back, and handling spam Get the scoop on domain registration, Web hosting providers, basic tools like FTP, and more Create a unique blog theme and presentation by using template tags with CSS Sign up for WordPress.com, log in, set options, and create a profile Install WordPress.org, set up a MySQL database, explore RSS feeds, and organize a blogroll Discover the secrets of creating a blog that draws readers Get tips on wonderful widgets, upgrades, and plugins you can add to make your blog extra cool Learn how to use the Dashboard, manage comments, and make permalinks work with your Web server With WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition on hand, it’s easy to make the most of the free software and build a blog that stands out in a crowd.

From the Back Cover

Discover why bloggers love WordPress and make your blog the best it can be

Blogs are as much a part of life today as the evening newspaper was fifty years ago, and for much the same reason: Inquiring minds want to know. WordPress powers some of the most popular blogs on the Web, and with this guide to help, it can work for you, too. Here’s what WordPress does, how to set it up and use it, and some cool bells and whistles to make your blog stand out.

• Pick your flavor — decide whether to use the WordPress.com hosted service or self-host your blog with WordPress.org
• Customization — discover CSS and template tags and how to use them to create your own unique style
• Blogging 101 — find out about archiving, interacting with readers through comments, tracking back, and handling spam
• Host with the most — get the scoop on domain registration, Web hosting providers, basic tools like FTP, and more
• Do it yourself — install WordPress.org, set up a MySQL database, explore RSS feeds, and organize a blogroll
• Beef up your blog — insert audio, video, images, and photos
• Think theme — discover where to find WordPress themes, explore various options, and work with template tags to create a unique look

Open the book and find:

• Advice for creating a blog that draws readers
• Tips on managing comments, trackbacks, and spam
• How to use the Dashboard
• Wonderful widgets and plugins to add
• How to make permalinks work with your Web server
• The standard templates and how to tweak them
• Ten popular WordPress themes
• Where to find help when you need it

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Create your own complete blog or web site from scratch with WordPress

• Everything you need to set up your own feature-rich WordPress blog or web site
• Clear and practical explanations of all aspects of WordPress
• In-depth coverage of installation, themes, syndication, and podcasting
• Explore WordPress as a fully functioning content management system
• Concise, clear, and easy to follow; rich with examples

In Detail

Using WordPress you can easily create dynamic blogs and web sites with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and although it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plug-ins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users. While it is easy to get started with WordPress, its full power is not obvious.

If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured blog or non-blog web site in no time, this book is for you. It will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and get you up and running with a state-of-the-art blog as quickly and painlessly as possible. It will help you learn everything WordPress has to offer, from the ground up, so you can build your complete web site. You will see many of WorPress’s hidden powers that will help you build a fully functioning web site.

You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. You will learn to install WordPress and customize the look-and-feel of your web site. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content, be it text or images, on your blog, and also understand how users interact with the blog. By working through the book you’ll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the ideas to make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximize its impact.

More advanced users will also pick up tips on creating your own themes and plug-ins, and such technical steps as backing up your WordPress web site and moving it from one server to another.

What you will learn from this book?

• Upgrade your WordPress from older installations
• Add tags and images to your posts and manage the comments on those posts
• Personalize and control the content of your web site using feature-rich widgets and plug-ins
• Manage the look and feel of your WordPress web site with customized themes and templates
• Share a blog with multiple authors and give them differing levels of control over blog administration and content
• Manage different levels of privileges for your users in a particular community and create custom roles for them
• Link your web site to the outside world through feeds, syndication, and podcasting
• Explore how you can take WordPress beyond blogging and use it as an effective CMS tool

Approach

Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, the book takes you through the essential tasks required to create a feature-rich blog as quickly as possible. From initial setup to customizing modules, each task is explained in a clear, practical way using an example blog developed through the book.

Who this book is written for?

This book is a guide to WordPress for both beginners and those who are slightly more advanced. It’s for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner, and it’s also for people who want to learn how to customize and expand the capabilities of a WordPress web site.

It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident user will be able to use the book to produce an impressive blog.

About the Author

April Hodge Silver

April has been designing and developing new web sites from scratch since 1999, just before her graduation from Columbia University. Early in her career, she worked for several web companies and startups, including DoubleClick and About.com. Since 2004, she has been self-employed through her company Springthistle Design and has worked with a staggering variety of companies, non-profits, and individuals to realize their web site dreams. In her professional work, April’s focus is always on usability, efficiency, flexibility, clean design, and client happiness. WordPress is the best solution for many of Springthistle’s Clients, though April also develops custom web applications using PHP and MySQL.

In her free time, April enjoys developing recipes in the kitchen, bicycling, and relaxing with her daughter, dog, and darlin wife.

Hasin Hayder

Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) in Bangladesh. He is a Zend-certified Engineer and expert in developing localized applications. He is currently working as a Technical Director in Trippert Labs and managing the local branch in Bangladesh. Beside his full time job, Hasin writes his blog at hasin.wordpress.com., writes article in different websites and maintains his open source framework Orchid at orchid.phpxperts.net. Hasin lives in Bangladesh with his wife Ayesha and his son, Afif.

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Don’t let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this book provides you with a video to accompany each lesson.

This book is the perfect guide to

• Planning and preparing your site for WordPress
• Installing WordPress
• Writing, tagging, and publishing a post
• Working with the text editor
• Styling paragraphs and creating lists
• Working with media files
• Linking, aligning, and sizing an image
• Working with image galleries
• Adding video and audio
• Naming, scheduling, and managing posts
• Making your site stand out
• Helping others connect to your site
• Becoming search engine friendly
• Optimizing your site
• Backing up your site
• Installing and activating plugins

From the Back Cover

A unique introduction to building web sites with WordPress

WordPress is today’s most popular open source blog publishing application, but its powerful features, simple interface, and easy expansion make it a great content management system for all types of web sites. This unique book-and-video package provides you with beginner-friendly tutorials for building and maintaining a WordPress web site. You’ll discover how to customize WordPress to meet your needs and you’ll see how critical—and simple—it is to expand and update content in order to make your site as effective as possible.

• Walks you through installing the software, provides an overview of the administration interface, and covers the basic settings you’ll need to get started
• Examines the ins and outs of uploading images, video, documents, etc., and using them on your site
• Demonstrates how to customize the look of your site using cascading style sheets
• Reviews helpful techniques for optimizing your site and making it search-engine friendly
• Explains how to track your site’s statistics, keep your plugins and themes up to date, and practice smart backup habits
• Addresses installing, activating, and troubleshooting plugins

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

On the DVD

Don’t just learn—do!

The lessons within the book are each accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD.

You’ll learn to:

• Plan your site for WordPress
• Write and add a new post
• Handle revisions
• Add new pages & sub pages
• Work with image galleries
• Manage media files, posts, categories, and widgets
• Link to other sites
• Approve, edit, and delete comments
• Customize the design and layout
• Optimize your content
• Extend WordPress

Please see the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Zen Cart is viewed by many as the must have management system for anyone who operates an online store. This software is available for free through the GNU General Public License and enables the user to take control of their online sales. Many similar systems are expensive but Zen Cart is free. However, this is not the only advantage of this software. The major advantage is functionality.

This superior functionality stems from the fact that Zen Cart was developed through the collaboration of online store owners, programmers, designers and consultants. They got together with a common goal of changing how online sales worked and they succeeded. The creators of this program set about developing this software according to five key points which create the philosophy of Zen Cart. A summary of these philosophies includes:

1. Never lose sight of the objectives of the online shop owners.
2. Design the software to be as easy to use as possible.
3. Pay attention to what the users think about the software.
4. Always try to expand database and server options.
5. Persevere to create a superior shopping cart application.

Although these philosophies may sound simplistic, they are actually the cornerstone of creating a truly useful piece of software. These philosophies not only put the needs of the users in the forefront but also reflect a dedication to continually improving to meet the ever changing needs of these users.

Anyone who sells a product or service online will appreciate the many valuable features of Zen Cart. In particular they will enjoy how easy this software is to install and setup. The installation program takes the user step by step through the installation process to ensure the software is setup correctly the first time. During the process the user will also have the option to customise certain aspects of the installation, if desired. However, even users with no computer experience can complete the standard installation in a matter of minutes.

Although there are a host of incredible features offered through Zen Cart, one feature users rave about is the pricing feature. In particular users are impressed with the variety of options available through the pricing feature. For example there are many options available for putting items on sale. Users can list one or more items on sale, alternately they can put entire sections or even the entire store on sale. The sale prices may be in terms of a percentage off the original price or a fixed price reduction. This gives the store owner a great deal of flexibility with promotions.

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